Examples of successful flyers?
Hi all! My collective is planning to make 8-1/2 x 11" (or similar size) flyer to post on public bulletin boards and publicize that we collect bicycles and put them to good use. I know at least some other bike collectives use flyers, and it'd be super helpful to see what works and what doesn't in terms of design and what we should say. Would anyone be willing to scan and send over a couple?
Thank you!
Ryan Feller, Director Bike Broward (954) 232-3790 www.bikebroward.org
CCBW always encourages "gently used" bicycles, but we take anything. We encourage a cash donation to go with a bicycle to cover the cost of parts.
-Doug Franz Coatesville Community Bike Works
-----Original Message----- From: thethinktank-bounces@lists.bikecollectives.org [mailto:thethinktank-bounces@lists.bikecollectives.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Feller Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2011 9:36 AM To: thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Subject: [TheThinkTank] Examples of successful flyers?
Hi all! My collective is planning to make 8-1/2 x 11" (or similar size) flyer to post on public bulletin boards and publicize that we collect bicycles and put them to good use. I know at least some other bike collectives use flyers, and it'd be super helpful to see what works and what doesn't in terms of design and what we should say. Would anyone be willing to scan and send over a couple?
Thank you!
Ryan Feller, Director Bike Broward (954) 232-3790 www.bikebroward.org
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For bicycle donations, we´ve done online publicizing and media outreach (try to get a story in the local news or local radio about your project) but no posters to my knowledge. After a while, word of mouth gets around and we hardly advertise that aspect of the cooperative--just have a page on the website telling people *how* to donate.
We only do posters for events and programming at this point.
Jess MoBo Bicycle Co-op in Cincinnati http://mobobicyclecoop.org/donate-a-bike/
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Doug Franz doug@coatesvillebikeworks.orgwrote:
CCBW always encourages "gently used" bicycles, but we take anything. We encourage a cash donation to go with a bicycle to cover the cost of parts.
-Doug Franz Coatesville Community Bike Works
-----Original Message----- From: thethinktank-bounces@lists.bikecollectives.org [mailto:thethinktank-bounces@lists.bikecollectives.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Feller Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2011 9:36 AM To: thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Subject: [TheThinkTank] Examples of successful flyers?
Hi all! My collective is planning to make 8-1/2 x 11" (or similar size) flyer to post on public bulletin boards and publicize that we collect bicycles and put them to good use. I know at least some other bike collectives use flyers, and it'd be super helpful to see what works and what doesn't in terms of design and what we should say. Would anyone be willing to scan and send over a couple?
Thank you!
Ryan Feller, Director Bike Broward (954) 232-3790 www.bikebroward.org
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We have had tremendous success sending a letter to area churches and asking them to include the request in their church bulletin and/or announce it during their services. This always generates an up-tick in donated bikes.
Buzz
Buzz Feldman Bicycle Longmont www.bicyclelongmont.org www.meetup.com/bicycle-longmont www.facebook.com/BicycleLongmont Education, Encouragement, Advocacy 303-709-6991
On Sunday, September 4, 2011 7:35am, "Ryan Feller" ryan@bikebroward.org said:
Hi all! My collective is planning to make 8-1/2 x 11" (or similar size) flyer to post on public bulletin boards and publicize that we collect bicycles and put them to good use. I know at least some other bike collectives use flyers, and it'd be super helpful to see what works and what doesn't in terms of design and what we should say. Would anyone be willing to scan and send over a couple?
Thank you!
Ryan Feller, Director Bike Broward (954) 232-3790 www.bikebroward.org
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LOVE the idea! Would you be willing to send over a copy of your letter, to give me a better idea of how to pitch it?
Thank you!
Ryan Feller, Director Bike Broward (954) 232-3790 www.bikebroward.org
We have had tremendous success sending a letter to area churches and asking them to include the request in their church bulletin and/or announce it during their services. This always generates an up-tick in donated bikes.
Buzz
Buzz Feldman Bicycle Longmont www.bicyclelongmont.org www.meetup.com/bicycle-longmont www.facebook.com/BicycleLongmont Education, Encouragement, Advocacy 303-709-6991
On Sunday, September 4, 2011 7:35am, "Ryan Feller" ryan@bikebroward.org said:
Hi all! My collective is planning to make 8-1/2 x 11" (or similar size) flyer to post on public bulletin boards and publicize that we collect bicycles and put them to good use. I know at least some other bike collectives use flyers, and it'd be super helpful to see what works and what doesn't in terms of design and what we should say. Would anyone be willing to scan and send over a couple?
Thank you!
Ryan Feller, Director Bike Broward (954) 232-3790 www.bikebroward.org
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a tip i learned from trying unsuccessfully to reuse/modify flyer designs:
if you design the flyer so that most of the generic, repeating info ("bike mechanics class", "bikes for sale!", "Earn-a-bike!") is all in one part of the flyer, and the specifics ("at our shop", "Friday, September 12, 2011", "$15 at the door") in another place, you can easily reuse the flyer by changing just the details. works about the same whether you're modifying a digital file to be printed, or using the copier with an updated "slice" pasted over the original.
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Ryan Feller ryan@bikebroward.org wrote:
LOVE the idea! Would you be willing to send over a copy of your letter, to give me a better idea of how to pitch it?
Thank you!
Ryan Feller, Director Bike Broward (954) 232-3790 www.bikebroward.org
We have had tremendous success sending a letter to area churches and asking them to include the request in their church bulletin and/or announce it during their services. This always generates an up-tick in donated bikes.
Buzz
Buzz Feldman Bicycle Longmont www.bicyclelongmont.org www.meetup.com/bicycle-longmont www.facebook.com/BicycleLongmont Education, Encouragement, Advocacy 303-709-6991
On Sunday, September 4, 2011 7:35am, "Ryan Feller" <ryan@bikebroward.org
said:
Hi all! My collective is planning to make 8-1/2 x 11" (or similar size) flyer to post on public bulletin boards and publicize that we collect bicycles and put them to good use. I know at least some other bike collectives use flyers, and it'd be super helpful to see what works and what doesn't in terms of design and what we should say. Would anyone be willing to scan and send over a couple?
Thank you!
Ryan Feller, Director Bike Broward (954) 232-3790 www.bikebroward.org
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If you have apartment buildings nearby most of their bike rooms /
basement storage are overrun with bikes, many of which have long been
abandoned. In this case you probably don't want to just stick a flyer
on their door but could contact building management or the super and
give to or mail them one.
(We're so overrun with bikes we even stopped printing our brochure a
few years back...)
Mark Rehder - Coordinator re-Cycles Community Bike Shop http://re-cycles.ca
On 4-Sep-11, at 3:29 PM, veganboyjosh@gmail.com wrote:
a tip i learned from trying unsuccessfully to reuse/modify flyer
designs:if you design the flyer so that most of the generic, repeating info
("bike mechanics class", "bikes for sale!", "Earn-a-bike!") is all
in one part of the flyer, and the specifics ("at our shop", "Friday,
September 12, 2011", "$15 at the door") in another place, you can
easily reuse the flyer by changing just the details. works about the same whether you're modifying a digital file to be
printed, or using the copier with an updated "slice" pasted over the
original.On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Ryan Feller ryan@bikebroward.org
wrote: LOVE the idea! Would you be willing to send over a copy of your
letter, to give me a better idea of how to pitch it?Thank you!
Ryan Feller, Director Bike Broward (954) 232-3790 www.bikebroward.org
We have had tremendous success sending a letter to area churches and asking them to include the request in their church bulletin and/or announce it during their services. This always generates an up-
tick in
donated bikes.
Buzz
Buzz Feldman Bicycle Longmont www.bicyclelongmont.org www.meetup.com/bicycle-longmont www.facebook.com/BicycleLongmont Education, Encouragement, Advocacy 303-709-6991
On Sunday, September 4, 2011 7:35am, "Ryan Feller" <ryan@bikebroward.org
said:
Hi all! My collective is planning to make 8-1/2 x 11" (or similar
size)
flyer to post on public bulletin boards and publicize that we
collect
bicycles and put them to good use. I know at least some other bike collectives use flyers, and it'd be super helpful to see what
works and
what doesn't in terms of design and what we should say. Would
anyone be
willing to scan and send over a couple?
Thank you!
Ryan Feller, Director Bike Broward (954) 232-3790 www.bikebroward.org
we try to keep up to date versions of stuff here: http://troybikerescue.org/print
feel free to check them out.
andrew lynn TBR
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Ryan Feller ryan@bikebroward.org wrote:
Hi all! My collective is planning to make 8-1/2 x 11" (or similar size) flyer to post on public bulletin boards and publicize that we collect bicycles and put them to good use. I know at least some other bike collectives use flyers, and it'd be super helpful to see what works and what doesn't in terms of design and what we should say. Would anyone be willing to scan and send over a couple?
Thank you!
Ryan Feller, Director Bike Broward (954) 232-3790 www.bikebroward.org
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Ryan, have you contacted your local police department? They might have bicycles to donate to you.
Maryalice
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Ryan Feller ryan@bikebroward.org wrote:
Hi all! My collective is planning to make 8-1/2 x 11" (or similar size) flyer to post on public bulletin boards and publicize that we collect bicycles and put them to good use. I know at least some other bike collectives use flyers, and it'd be super helpful to see what works and what doesn't in terms of design and what we should say. Would anyone be willing to scan and send over a couple?
Thank you!
Ryan Feller, Director Bike Broward (954) 232-3790 www.bikebroward.org
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This is a link to our general brochure which was designed to answer the questions "what is the collective?" "how can the collective help me?" "how can I help the collective?"
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Sincerely,
Jonathan Morrison Executive Director Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective 2312 S. West Temple Salt Lake City, UT 84115 w: 801-328-2453 c: 801-688-0183 f: 801-466-3856 www.slcbikecollective.org
The mission of the Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective is to promote cycling as an effective and sustainable form of transportation and as a cornerstone of a cleaner, healthier, and safer society. The Bicycle Collective provides refurbished bicycles and educational programs to the community, focusing on children and lower income households.
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 7:35 AM, Ryan Feller ryan@bikebroward.org wrote:
Hi all! My collective is planning to make 8-1/2 x 11" (or similar size) flyer to post on public bulletin boards and publicize that we collect bicycles and put them to good use. I know at least some other bike collectives use flyers, and it'd be super helpful to see what works and what doesn't in terms of design and what we should say. Would anyone be willing to scan and send over a couple?
Thank you!
Ryan Feller, Director Bike Broward (954) 232-3790 www.bikebroward.org
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